Do you love Spider-Man?

I mean, really love Spider-Man? That's good, because Marvel's solicitations for books shipping in May are online, and it looks like there's exactly 582 Spider-man books coming out.

Ok, so I exaggerated. But just a bit. Here are the Spidey books coming out in just a single month:

ASTONISHING SPIDER-MAN/WOLVERINE #1
ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #10
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #631
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #632
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #633
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #37
THE MANY LOVES OF THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN PRESENTS: AMERICAN SON #1 (of 4)
SPIDER-MAN: FEVER #2 (of 3)
PETER PARKER #3
WEB OF SPIDER-MAN #8
SPIDER-MAN MAGAZINE #11
Marvel Adventures: SPIDER-MAN #2
SPIDER-MAN: THE REAL CLONE SAGA HC
SPIDER-MAN: THE GAUNTLET VOL. 3 – VULTURE & MORBIUS PREMIERE HC
SPIDER-MAN NOIR: EYES WITHOUT A FACE PREMIERE HC
MARVEL 1602: SPIDER-MAN PREMIERE HC
SPIDER-MAN: THE COMPLETE CLONE SAGA EPIC BOOK 2 TPB
SPIDER-MAN: RED-HEADED STRANGER TPB

And that's not even counting all the Age of Heroes and Avengers books he's appearing in. Is there a Spider-man movie coming out that month that I'm not aware of?

THE MANY LOVES OF THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN? Really? I thought Peter Parker was supposed to be a nerd who is unlucky in love. This looks more like THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: SMOOTH PLAYA'



I do dig this Chris Bachalo cover for ASM #632, though:



And even though I haven't read a Spidey book in decades, I think I'll pick up the SPIDER-MAN: FEVER limited-series. It's written and illustrated by Brendan Friggin' McCarthy! Are you kidding me? How could I possibly pass that up? If you like your comics served up with a side of doped-up, acid trip surrealism, "The New McCarthyism" is the guy for you. (Loved, loved, loved his covers on Vertigo's Shade The Changing Man, though his art here isn't nearly as tripy.)

1 Comments:

That Bachelo cover is amazing.

By  Steven Russell Black, at 3/2/10 12:35 PM  

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